'Buffer'? You mean pad with trailing blanks? See length, substr, perlop (the . and x operators). But I don't think that's going to help. Padding isn't going to be reliable here, because think of the different page sizes, fonts and font sizes. Not only that, but extra blank spaces get ignored in HTML. Perhaps you could try splitting it into several individual HTML documents. Or you could output PostScript or PDF or some other format which supports such instructions instead; there are modules on CPAN that will let you do this. I think when printing plain text that the ^L character (expressed as \cL in Perl) produces a form feed, which feeds the printer to the next page. I'm not sure all printers do that, though.

HTH.

In reply to Re: Is there any easy way to buffer a string? by premchai21
in thread Is there any easy way to buffer a string? by jryan

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